SUSAN'S FAMILY TREE
At a Cabaniss family reunion a book was displayed of ancestor Henry Cabaniss, French Huguenot immigrant of July 1700.

At home I looked over bits of family history gathered from my grandmothers.
I wanted to verify family legends the grandmothers told.
THE GENEALOGY BUG BIT!

Around my family tree I found patriots, pioneers, preachers, farmers,
merchants, loggers, teachers, weavers, millwrights, blacksmiths,
engineers, shipmasters, tanners, painters and innkeepers! The women kept
the farm going while the patriots were away, tended the ill, and served as
midwives. A great-great grandmother, widowed, ran a livery stable.

6) Harve Glen Cobb 1901-1939
Married 1924 Custer County, Oklahoma
7) Grace Evelyn Dovel 1906-1994
Grace married 2nd 1942 Raymond Knauf.
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MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS
8) William Francis CABANISS, b. 4 Jan 1859 in Jackson Co, AL, d. 25 Sep 1939 in Clinton, Custer Co, OK, married Nancy Welborn 8 Feb 1880 in Jackson Co, AL. W. F. and Nancy moved to Titus Co., TX in early 1880s. They moved to brand new town of Arapaho, O. T. in June 1892 with their children Florence, George, Charlie, Belle, and Charley. Jesse was born in Arapaho in November 1892 and Joe was born June 1895. W. F. built a two story building used as a grocery and a two story hotel that was used temporarily for county offices when the Custer County courthouse burned November 1896. On his farm west of town W. F. raised and trained and sold mules for farming and built his own blacksmith shop. Nancy died in 1919. W. F. married 1923 to Beulah Matheny of Alabama. She preceded him in death in 1936.
9) Nancy Melvina WELBORN, b. 22 Aug 1858 in Jackson Co, AL, d. 8 Apr 1919 in Clinton, Custer Co, OK. Nancy's obituary in the Arapaho, Oklahoma BEE, Friday, April 11, 1919 said, "Mrs. Cabiness was a remarkable woman besides raising her family and keeping her home she was the constant business companion of her husband in his vast business affairs. All this she seemed to do with ease. She had a remarkable memory and never seemed to forget the smallest details of business."

10) John Spencer JONES, b. 2 Jun 1863 in Bosworth, Carroll Co, MO, d. 21 Feb 1960 in Bentonville, Benton Co, AR, married Emmaline Mann 24 Dec 1893 in Dewitt, Carroll Co, MO. John and Louise and daughter Ocie Pearl chartered a box car in Carroll County, loaded all possessions, household articles, two team of horses, two wagons, and Louise's brother Harrison Mann and headed west by rail. They unloaded at El Reno, Oklahoma and drove wagons to near Custer City. They camped for the night Feb 3, 1898, Ocie's third birthday. A howling northern blew in at dusk and they huddled in the featherbeds in the covered wagon. They rented a farm near Custer City that year. The next year John Spencer Jones bought a place northeast of Arapaho. He was a thrifty farmer, took things slow and easy, lived 96 years, 8 months.
11) Louise Emmaline MANN, b. 3 Dec 1873 in Alma, Crawford Co, AR, d. 9 Apr 1950 in Bentonville, Benton Co, AR. Emmaline raised a cotton crop every summer for extra money for her household and children. When her children were older she was active in women's homemaker and Eastern Star organizations in Arapaho. In the 1930s they moved to Arkansas.

12) Rufus Rowland COBB, b. 11 Apr 1865 in Fayetteville, Talladega Co, AL, d. 4 Jul 1947 in Arapaho, Custer Co, OK, married Mittie Cobb 30 Jan 1887 in JimTown, Indian Territory. Rufus, his father-in-law George Wesley Stephens, and his brothers-in-law Jim and Bill were in the Run of 1892 (April) opening the Cheyenne and Arapaho lands. In October 1892 Rufus moved wife Mittie, sons George and Cecil and baby daughter Rexie to Arapaho from their farm near Healdton, Chickasaw Nation with three wagons. George Wesley Stephens drove one of the wagons. It took two weeks to travel from the Stephens Post Office near Healdton to Arapaho. They moved to a homestead at Gyp fourteen miles west of Arapaho and built a store there. Six more children, Frank, Lois, Harvey, Randle, Rollie and Fannie were born at Gyp. In 1907 Rufus and Mittie and family returned to Arapaho and opened Cobb's Mercantile. Mildred and Mary were born in Arapaho.
13) Martha Olivia 'Mittie' STEPHENS, b. 19 Jun 1869 in Whitesboro, Grayson Co, TX, d. 28 Apr 1943 in Arapaho, Custer Co, OK. Mittie wrote about her pioneer experiences, meeting her husband at a camp revival on the Red River, marriage at JimTown, I.T., life in Chickasaw Nation in 1890, and traveling by wagon to Cheyenne and Arapaho Country October 1892. She was a merchant's wife, and sometimes prepared caskets for pioneers. Thank you, Mittie, for telling your stories for your grandchildren.

14) James Clark DOVEL, b. 19 Aug 1880 in Stanley, Page Co, VA, d. 14 Mar 1960 in Thomas Mem. Hsp., Custer Co, OK, married Myrtle Stoneberger 1 Jan 1903 in Page Co, VA. Nov. 1906, James, wife Myrtle and baby daughter Grace Evelyn boarded a train at Stanley with father Lewis, brothers, Joseph Edward and Taswell Orville, and sisters, Martha Laura and Maud May, and moved to Arapaho, Oklahoma. They were met at the railroad station by Uncle 'Cabe' Dovel. James and Myrtle farmed at Arapaho until 1910, later farmed near Butler, Vicksburg and Gip. They had four other children, Rufus, Forrest, Hazel and Ruth. James and Myrtle retired from farming in 1945 and moved to Custer City where a distant cousin of Myrtle's, Charles Stoneberger, lived.
15) Myrtle Mae STONEBERGER, b. 17 Mar 1887 in Stanley, Page Co, VA, d. 2 Nov 1978 in Clinton, Custer Co, OK. Myrtle, age 10, helped out a neighbor's household when the young mother passed away. Myrtle married the eldest son, James. They moved to Oklahoma in 1906. After James passed away, Myrtle lived in Weatherford, OK and at times in Farmington, NM with her daughter Ruth.
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MY 2ND GREAT GRANDPARENTS
16) George V. CABANISS, b. 21 Oct 1827 in Shelby, Cleveland Co, NC.
d. 23 Feb 1904 in Section, Jackson Co, AL, married Letty Beam 5 Nov 1850 in Shelby, NC.
17) Letitia 'Letty' Ann BEAM, b. 16 Aug 1829 in Section, Jackson Co, AL, d.
9 Apr 1885 in Jackson Co, AL.

26) George Wesley STEPHENS, b. 1 May 1842 in Monroe Co, TN, d. 11 Mar 1927 in Austin, Travis Co, TX, married Mary Catherine Sarver 11 Nov 1864 in Grayson Co, TX. George and his two sons and son-in-law, Rufus Cobb, were in the Run of 1892 opening Cheyenne and Arapaho lands. George and his second wife, Fannie, owned and operated the Orient Hotel in Arapaho until it burned when struck by lightning July 1905.
27) Mary Catherine SARVER, b. circa 1842 on the New River, Montgomery Co, VA, d. 4 Jan 1874 in Whitesboro, Grayson Co, TX. Mary Catherine first married Pearis Olinger in Montgomery County, VA 12 May 1859. Pearis may have died in the Civil War.

60) George STONEBERGER, b. 1816 in Shenandoah Co, VA, d. after 1866 in Page Co, VA, married Phoebe Turner 11 Jun 1841 in Page Co, VA. George, 47, enlisted 10 February 1863, nine days after his sons Godfrey and Siram joined at Luray, VA, Samuel Bradford Brown's Company C, 13 Batt'n Virginia Calvary, officially the 39th Battalion. Samuel Browns' company of Scouts, Guides and Couriers served with CSA General Robert E. Lee. George was registered at the Chimborazo hospital at Richmond, VA from 20 September to 1 October 1864. George and Phoebe's youngest son Albert died of consumption, age 23, December 1870.
61) Phoebe TURNER, b. circa 1820 in Page Co, VA, d. 1898 in Page Co, VA.

208) William STEPHENS III, b. 1711 in York Co, VA, d. 1781 in Prison Ship, FORSHAY, married Mary Sampson 1733 in NC. *Searching Internet for Forshay I found nothing, but there was a Prison Ship FORBAY in Charles Town Harbour 1781. There is a Daniel Stephens onboard as a prisoner.http://ftp.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/ncstate/ships/forbay.txt
209) Mary SAMPSON, b. circa 1711 in VA, d. after 1762 in Beaufort,
Carteret Co, NC.

254) Michael NICHOLSON
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MY 6TH GREAT GRANDPARENTS
256) Henry CABANIS, b. circa 1675 in France, d. 1720 in Pr George Co, VA, married Mary circa 1711 in VA. Henry came to Virginia with wife Maria, who died before 1708. In a land grant of 1708 his wife was Magdalene. The wife named in his will, Mary, could be a third wife, or Magdalene by another name.
257) Mary HARRISON?, b. in James River, VA, d. after 1714 in VA.